School run chic

[smithy100]

What do you wear everyday? I need to know...need new ideas for day to day outfits. I'm stay at home mum with 3 small dc, 2 at primary school I don't get dressed up for work. Wear jeans everyday and it's boring! Help me mn style people x

Woah Eliza, it wasn't me! I AM aforementioned IVF mum, tho I didn't realise it defined my appearance

I don't even notice what people wear in the school run. I do see some people dressed up, but assume they are going to work. But I really don't get the high heels!!

I have a degree in fashion btw, and am generally v style conscious. But the school run?

Sorry, but now in my mind elskiing looks like Lauren Goodger.

Did she mean NCT mums?

Or maybe PTA mums? Just trying to think what IVF could be?

Mahoooosive apologies ellangirl. It was of course, elskling

for you!

Elskling I'm betting less sneering at your naice clothes and more thinking "what a cock that she cares that much what we think".

Smithy mornings gym gear if I'm not working. Afternoons jeans/converse or leggings/boots. Parka coat/variety of scarves.

I'm normally a skinnies/wrap top or dress girl on the school run, with knee high or ankle boots. I do use blusher and mascara otherwise I look like death.

I have two DC's one is at school and I have so few clothes I have them on a 4 day rotation.

Elskiing is a bit I'm not an IVF mum but I am a PTA member....

Elskling even. Stuffing autocorrect.

Oh God yes! Makeup IS compulsory past age 50. I look like I've been dug up is I go 'au naturel'

My natural non work wardrobe is smart casual. I don't really do grungy casual anymore. I love wearing heels (wedge heeled suede boots with a thick rubber sole have been brilliant this winter but I'll wear flat snow boots if its been snowing or is icy). Unless I'm walking a lot, it's heels heels heels. I literally feel flat without them!

I wear jeans and jumpers a lot but with the right boots, scarves and jewellery, doesnt look dowdy. I love scarves, can transform an outfit.

But the best investment to transform even the most casual of outfits is wear a decent, properly fitted bra. Even with the most basic tee shirts you get a better silhouette.

I was gobsmacked by my "real" bra size after getting measured up properly at bravissimo last year but even more so when I saw the difference a decent bra does for my rack. Started to get compliments from other women about my chest and someone even asked me if I'd had a boob job!

A properly fitted bra can make you look like you've lost loads of weight too, can show off your waist more. In danger of sounding like Trinny and Susannah, make sure you're wearing a decent bra!

Oh Elskling, I would love to see what you look like.

I'm guessing beneath the OMG Orange head you're rocking extensions (that prob shed in the schoolyard), a Jane Norman dress, style name: 'Vagina Veil', and spike-heeled Timberlands.

smithy I'm the same as you, have 3dc, 2 of which are at school and I'm a SAHM. I wear jeans every day but do vary the style and colour (blue or black, haven't yet found coloured ones that suit me!). I tend to buy tops in neutral colours such as grey, navy or black and then add colour with cardigans. This way everything goes together which is important if a, like me you often get changed in the day as you're covered in lunch/crap off the carpet at toddler group and b, you can't keep up with the washing!

I don't dress up as such for the school run but being at home is my 'job' and just as I wouldn't turn up to work in my slobby clothes I don't turn up to school in them (I just save them for when I'm back behind closed doors ).

At our school, there's a mixture of all outfits-jeans, work stuff, gym stuff and to my knowledge no-one judges or passes comment thnk goodness.

I wear M&S jeggings in indigo/black,thermals t shirts from Brora,Wrap and Matalan and coats from Tk Maxx.I buy lovely cashmere/silk/wool scarves from tk Maxx and buy cashmere jumpers in the sales though i have just bought some cotton traders snow boots [as i live up a very slippy hill] and they have really good grippage.I tend to restrict colours and go for a basic palette of grey/navy/black so everything goes together.I then add colour with scarves/jewellery etc-its a sort of uniform.Funnily enough i am an IVF mum but i dress better than the younger mums here [rural sartorial wasteland].

Thewombat no the top not too fine, I have worn with vest under on cold days but it will also be nice for spring HTH

Hullo all,

Just to let you know that Elskling was NOT a regular poster, and will not be darkening our doorstep again.

As you were...

I'm with secondcoming and twogoodreasons. Can see why people want to make the best of themselves, whatever their age and size - that's really one of main things S and B's about. But can't understand this fascination with dressing up, etc specifically for the school run - now no longer a feature of my life.

Perhaps that's because I was, and am, 'middle-aged and large'!

I was always in work clothes and hurrying to get to the office. Didn't linger and am glad I didn't if some others had nothing better to do than pore over judgmental and petty comments about what outfits people wore just to deliver their DC.

Awww that's a shame, I thought she would have made quite good sport !

But we haven't had a style definition of an IVF mum yet!

Pms at 'fancy school'.....

!

We were side tracked there for a bit...

Mmm I do wear jeans but they are FC skinny jeans along with biker boots, lots of scarves, great coats - in winter people only really see your coat when you are shivering in the playground so make it a goody! That way you could be wearing your pj's underneath .

Erm what else? Bit of make up, hair clean and brushed. I dunno, the winter is much harder (or easier) than the summer as so little is on show. I know it's not a show but I do feel better when I look ok.

I am a middle aged IVF mum so fascinated how I would have got on at Elskling's fancy school?

I 'dress up' for the school run as that's the only time I am guaranteed to be going out- nights out just don't happen any more so I do try and look good, plus I feel better looking smartish